Window-shade-roller holder and adjuster



1. H. LA PEARL.

WINDOW SHADE ROLLER HOLDER AND ADJUSTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 28,1921.

Patented Mar. 28,1922.

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Patent d a. 28, 1922.

- Application filed Harcli 28,1921. Serial No, 456,480. f

while providing for ventilation either below or above .thelshade;

A further object is to provide easy means for changing the range ofvertical adjustment of the shade holder, from a part only,

. to the entire vertical length of the window.

The object also is to provide an exceedingly simple device which will beinexpensive to manufacture, easy to install, even by.

inexperienced persons, and one that is durable and not likely to get outof order in use.

I accomplish the above and other objects which will hereinafter appear,by the mech anism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Fig.1 is a perspective view of my invention operatively applied to a window,and in position at the top of the frame. Fig. 2 is a front elevation ofa window on a smaller scale than that ofFig. 1, but showing the entirewindow with the shade and support in about the same position as shown inFig. 1, in which the shade is covering the major upper portion of thewindow. Fig. 3 is a like view of the window showing the shade rollerholder below the parting rail of the lower sash, and the shade entirelyopposite the lower sash. Figs. 4 and 5 are details showing theconstruction of the eyelet by which the holding and adjusting cord oftheshade roller holder is fastened to the-latter and Fig. 6 is a crosssection of the roller holder showing the construction of the clampingband thereon.

Like characters of reference indicate like parts in the several views. f

The shade 7 is mounted on a spring-actuated'roller (not shown) havingaround pin'8 at one end of the roller and a flatsided' one 9, at theother; all of usual construction. ertical brackets '10 and 11, tosupport pins 8 and 9, respectively, are

formed out of strap netal. .1 Thelower ends of said brackets are bentout atright angles to form guiding ears. 12, 12, which are perforated,and through the perforations vertical guide-wires 13, '13, are threaded,in the mannerfshown. Thewires are fastened to the respective screw-eyes14, 14, screwed into the top 15, of the windowframe, and also toscrew-eyes 16, 16, screwed into the sldes of the frame, and the wires,after bei-ng threaded through the perforations of said ears, are drawntaut between their screw-eyes. p

The straps from which the brackets 10 and llare formed are bent at rightangles at the tops of the brackets in the opposite direction from thatof their respective ears and are continued to form suitablespacermembers 17 and 18, which are joined by a connecting bar 19, madeout of the same strap material.

'The spacer-members 17 and 18, are adjustably secured to the connectingbar 19,

by loops 20, 20, formed of strap metal bent 7 around the parts in themanner shown in Fig. 6, with the ends of the strap bent out at rightangles to the body-portion forming parallel ears which are drawntogether by tightening a nut on a screw-bolt 21, passed This forms a.

through holes in said ears. clamping band by which given adjustments ofthe spacer-members and connecting bar are held. I

Holes are formed through the spacermembers 17 and 18, preferably asclose to their respective brackets as possible in order to secure adirect support, and in these holes the eyelets 22, 23, are fastened. Acord, wire, or other suitable flexible cable 24 has one end fastened tothe eyelet 22 It is then threaded through the screw-eye 14 and carriedthence across and through the screw- .eye 14 from which a lengthsufficient to come within'easy reach of a person desiring to raise andlower the shade, and for fastening same to a suitable bracket 25,depends from the screw-eye 14'. A second cable 26 is fastened to theeyelet 23, and is passed thence through the screw-eye 14 from which Theends, of the two depending cable lengths may be tied together ifdesired, but at any rate, they are manipulated together to raiseandlower my roller supporting device with roller and shade attached. Thelatterjparts are in; fact suspended from alength equal to that of cable24 depends. V

screw-eyes 14,14 by cables 24 and 26; their weight will move them tothe, bottom of the window or as far as'the" guide wires 13, 13,

and lower screw-eyes l6, 16,will let; them go, when the cables arereleased, and any" desired position is retained by fastening the cablesto' bra'ck'et25. The shade is rolled upon the roller and.u-nrolledctherefrom to the desired length in the usual manner, my

invention having only to do with the verti- 'cal adjustment of theroller itself.

Vhile Iha-ve described the best emb'odimentofmy invention now known tome it is obvious thatmany minor changes may be made and I. therefore donot desire to be limited any more than isrequired by the jappendedwlaimb7 In awindow-shade roller holder, a pair of brackets formed out of strapmetal in a separate piece foweachbracket whichis bent outwardly at thelower ends of the brackets to fonnguide-ears, said ears being per--forat,ed,;and said strap pieces being bent inwardlyiat the upper endsof the brackets to form spacer-.niembers, a connecting bar "lap pingTth'e" ends of said spacer-members,

, clamping loops binding the lapped ends togather, a pair of screw-eyesattached to the window frame one above each bracket, a pair ofscrew-eyes attached each to a'slde of the window frame at the lowerlimit of travel of the shade-roller holder, guide wires re- 7 to theother end of the holder and passing up and through the nearestscrew-eye'over that end and "then across'and'through thelast-named-screw-eye, and means for making the dependingen'ds of the twocables fast. 7

Signed at lndianapolis, Indiana, thisthe 25 day of March, 1921.

JAMES LA PEARL.

